Enterprise Architect

1 week ago

Watford, Hertfordshire, United Kingdom KPMG Full time

About the Role

The Enterprise Architect will play a pivotal role in aligning the firm's business strategy with its technology strategy within our client-facing services and our enterprise-wide technology domains. This role will involve translating business strategies into equivalent technology strategies, challenging the business strategies based on emerging and future technology trends, helping business design and govern their technology roadmap, i.e., a portfolio of technology transformation projects that deliver the business and technology strategies; influencing business and technology stakeholders to adopt the right technology solutions; and escalating risks, issues, and critical dependencies to the appropriate leaders as required to ensure the successful delivery of the strategy.

About KPMG

KPMG is a global professional services firm that provides audit, tax, and advisory services to clients across various industries. Our team of experts is dedicated to helping businesses navigate complex challenges and achieve their goals.

Key Responsibilities

  • Maintain a high level of technical knowledge, including current, emerging, and future technology market trends and their impact on the business.
  • Develop and maintain expert knowledge of Audit technology ecosystem, i.e., the applications and technologies that support Audit business.
  • Develop and maintain expert knowledge of Enterprise Digital Workplace technology ecosystem, including the main applications and technologies that interact with this domain.
  • Work with Capability CTOs, and business and technical SMEs to develop technology roadmaps for Audit and Enterprise Digital Workplace capabilities using enterprise architecture tooling.
  • Ensure that Audit and Enterprise Digital Workplace roadmaps are aligned to the relevant business strategy, and coherent with those of other Capabilities and technology domain roadmaps.
  • Work with Capability CTOs, technical SMEs, and specific projects to analyze and translate business requirements into technical requirements, ensuring that these are feasible.
  • Ensure that Solution Architects produce designs that are fit for purpose, adhere to relevant standards and patterns, leverage reusable components, and are coherent with wider KPMG technology domains.
  • Contribute to the selection of specific technologies.
  • Influence business and technology stakeholders to adopt the right technology solutions.
  • Support the design and implementation of operating models that improve the design and delivery of successful technology deployments.
  • Escalate risks, issues, and critical dependencies to the appropriate leaders as required to ensure the successful delivery of the strategy.

Requirements

  • Expert knowledge of Audit technologies and understanding of how data and analytics technologies like Databricks, Microsoft Fabric, support Audit delivery and quality.
  • Expert knowledge of Enterprise Digital Workplace technologies, i.e., M365 components Teams, SharePoint Online, Co-pilot, Stream, Viva, etc., and other collaboration technologies, i.e., Miro, etc.
  • Good knowledge of Audit processes, including appreciation of how processes may benefit from automation/AI technology enablement.
  • Good knowledge of EA governance, including steps required, e.g., Info Sec approval, conceptual and solution architecture reviews, security assessments, pen tests, code reviews, and service acceptance criteria.
  • Good understanding of architectural risks, technical debt, including its causes, how to measure it, and remedial actions, including decommissioning.
  • Demonstrable experience in Enterprise and Solution Architecture roles, with at least 1 year as an EA.
  • Qualified in ITIL and TOGAF (The Open Group Architecture Framework).
  • Experience of using enterprise architecture tooling, preferably Software AG Alfabet.

Desirable

  • Good knowledge of Business Architecture, including business and technology strategies, operating models, process models, business and technology capability models, and taxonomies.
  • Experience of leading offshore teams.
  • Practical understanding of GDPR and ISO 27001.
  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent.

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